USING PEER CORRECTION TO IMPROVE WRITING PERFORMANCE FOR NON - MAJOR ENGLISH STUDENTS

USING PEER CORRECTION TO IMPROVE WRITING PERFORMANCE FOR NON - MAJOR ENGLISH STUDENTS

Truong Thi Minh toantrh@gmail.com Vinh University 182 Le Duan, Vinh city, Nghe An province, Vietnam Email:toantrh@gmail.com
Summary: 
Cooperative learning, group work and pair work are found to have considerable impacts and effectiveness in learning processes and improving the students’ writing performance. This article identifies the advantages and limitations of peer correction in order to give some suggestions for applying this method for first-year students non- majoring in English.
Keywords: 
Peer correction
advantages
limitations
writing performance
non-major English students
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